Prayer Room

An actual synagogue did not exist. From 1901 to 1925 there was a prayer room of the "Israelitische Vereinigung" on the upper floor of the house of the "Bürgerverein" (after 1945: "Volkshaus"). The building in which the prayer room was located was demolished in 1993. The Apolda town hall was built on the site. After the mid-1920s, there was no longer any organized Jewish community life in Apolda.

1418 lived in Altenburg 14 men considered as taxpayers.
. Eight of them supported themselves - on a small scale - from the money trade. Also a butcher selling only to Jews (Fleischsnider of the Jews) is mentioned. In this period the Jewish families formed a small community, which probably had a prayer room (synagogue) in Johannisgasse (probably in today's Johannisstraße 31). After 1430, the Jews of Altenburg were probably expelled. In the middle of the 15th century, no Jews lived in the city anymore. 

In 1932, the East Jewish Cultural Association inaugurated the new prayer hall in Rheindorfer Straße. Nothing is known about its further use.

In 1805 Jacob Elkan established a synagogue (prayer hall) in his private house. Until his death, the services of the Jewish families in Weimar were held in this private synagogue. Above the decorated entrance door of the building are the intertwined initials "J.E." for Jacob Elkan.

Already in the 15th century there was possibly a synagogue, which is said to have been destroyed by Schwarzburg soldiers in 1492. But this indication has been doubted several times.   
Whether there was a prayer room in the 16th century is not known. 

The prayer room was located in the Pfifferling family home. Last use: No information